Turkey bombs suspected Kurdish rebels

[shain from kane]

Source: Associated Press


By SELCAN HACAOGLU
Associated Press Writer


SIRNAK, Turkey --Turkish warplanes bombed positions of suspected Kurdish rebels Wednesday, and the prime minister said preparations for parliamentary approval of a military mission against separatist fighters in Iraq were under way.

A cross-border operation could hurt Turkey's relationship with the United States, which opposes Turkish intervention in northern Iraq, a region that has escaped the violence afflicting much of the rest of the country.
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Turkey and the United States are NATO allies, but ties have also been tense over a U.S. congressional bill that would label the mass killings of Armenians by Turks around the time of World War I as genocide. President Bush strongly urged Congress to reject the bill, saying it would do "great harm" to U.S.-Turkish relations.
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Turkish troops blocked rebel escape routes into Iraq while F-16 and F-14 warplanes and Cobra helicopters dropped bombs on possible hideouts, Dogan news agency reported. The military had dispatched tanks to the region to support the operation against the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, in response to more than a week of deadly attacks in southeastern Turkey.



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[AllyCat]

1. This is the reason we are supporting Turkey (or * is) by dropping

the resolution in the House about something that happened 100 years ago? We are supposed to be supporting freedom everywhere right? yup, freedom is on the march. :eyes:

[Javaman]

5. Nope, this is the reason...

Turkish troops blocked rebel escape routes into Iraq while F-16 and F-14 warplanes and Cobra helicopters dropped bombs on possible hideouts

U.S. weapons. war is a racket.

[xchrom]

2. lol -- ah this is gonna get good. n/t

[Tempest]

3. Turkey has nothing to worry about when it comes to the Bush administration

President George W. Bush on Wednesday urged U.S. lawmakers to reject a congressional resolution calling the 1915 massacres of Armenians genocide, saying it would do "great harm" to U.S. relations with Turkey.

[libodem]

4. I guess we will

put their leaders on trial and hang them.

[hootinholler]

6. All I could think of was that WKRP episode

:rofl:

-Hoot